Climate Finance : Regulatory and Funding Strategies for Climate Change and Global Development.
Preventing risks of severe damage from climate change not only requires deep cuts in developed country greenhouse gas emissions, but enormous amounts of public and private investment to limit emissions while promoting green growth in developing countries. While attention has focused on emissions lim...
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments; Foreword: NYU Abu Dhabi and the Sustainable Environment; Summary of Key Findings and Recommendations; About the Contributors; PART I: Climate Change and Mitigation: Overview and Key Themes; 1 Climate Finance for Limiting Emissions and Promoting Green Development: Mechanisms, Regulation, and Governance; 2 Understanding the Causes and Implications of Climate Change; 3 The Climate Financing Problem: Funds Needed for Global Climate Change Mitigation Vastly Exceed Funds Currently Available; 4 The Future of Climate Governance: Creating a More Flexible Architecture.
- PART II: Proposals for Climate Finance: Regulatory and Market Mechanisms and IncentivesA. Trading or Taxes?; 5 Cap-and-Trade Is Preferable to a Carbon Tax; B. Reforming the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM); 6 Expectations and Reality of the Clean Development Mechanism: A Climate Finance Instrument between Accusation and Aspirations; C. Sectoral Programs for Emissions Control and Crediting; 7 Why a Successful Climate Change Agreement Needs Sectoral Elements; 8 Sectoral Crediting: Getting the Incentives Right for Private Investors.
- 9 Forest and Land Use Programs Must Be Given Financial Credit in Any Climate Change Agreement10 Stock-and-Flow Mechanisms to Reduce Land Use, Land Use Change, and Forestry Emissions: A Proposal from Brazil; D. Leveraging Trading to Maximize Climate Benefits; 11 Mitigating Climate Change at Manageable Cost: The Catalyst Proposal; 12 Engaging Developing Countries by Incentivizing Early Action; E. Linking Trading Systems; 13 Carbon Market Design: Beyond the EU Emissions Trading Scheme; F. Investor Perspectives; 14 Incentivizing Private Investment in Climate Change Mitigation.
- 15 Investment Opportunities and Catalysts: Analysis and Proposals from the Climate Finance Industry on Funding Climate MitigationPART III: Bringing Developed and Developing Countries Together in Climate Finance Bargains: Trust, Governance, and Mutual Conditionality; A. Meeting Developing Country Climate Finance Priorities; 16 Developing Country Concerns about Climate Finance Proposals: Priorities, Trust, and the Credible Donor Problem; 17 Developing Countries and a Proposal for Architecture and Governance of a Reformed UNFCCC Financial Mechanism.
- 18 Climate Change and Development: A Bottom-Up Approach to Mitigation for Developing Countries?19 Operationalizing a Bottom-Up Regime: Registering and Crediting NAMAs; B. Conditionality and Its Governance; 20 From Coercive Conditionality to Agreed Conditions: The Only Future for Future Climate Finance; 21 Getting Climate-Related Conditionality Right; 22 Making Climate Financing Work: What Might Climate Change Experts Learn from the Experience of Development Assistance?; PART IV: National Policies: Implications for the Future Global Climate Finance Regime.